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Systems Infrastructure & Network Security Operations Engineer Description - HP’s
Vision: HP aims to create technology that makes life better for everyone,
everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the
globe. With the creativity and energy of a startup combined with the strength
and determination of a Fortune 100 corporation, we continue to deliver
groundbreaking technologies that build on our 80+ year legacy of innovation.
Role Overview: Your expertise in securely provisioning and managing systems and
networking within centralized compute deployments will be critical to success in
this role. You will influence quality and security while contributing to
business growth. This position requires a strong blend of secure network
provisioning, systems automation, and resilient infrastructure design to enhance
product quality, security posture, and scalability. As part of a small, agile
team, you will own end-to-end processes—from architecture and
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to continuous delivery and incident response—while
maintaining accountability and driving innovation. Core
Responsibilities
- Zero-Trust System Design Draft, review, and maintain zero-trust SOPs across
- identity, device, data, and infrastructure. Produce reusable reference models
- mapped to HP’s enterprise architecture and expressed as policy-as-code. Impact:
- Ensures consistent security across environments and enables automated policy
- enforcement. Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation Extend Net-Sec-Ops pipelines
- with IaC (Ansible) for firewalls, switches, SD-WAN, and edge fabric. Deliver
- automated, version-controlled playbooks with unit, integration, and compliance
- tests in CI. Impact: Enables repeatable, auditable, and rapid deployments while
- reducing manual errors. Systems Resilience & Disaster Recovery Architect and
- automate backup, failover, and DR workflows for all network devices. Conduct
- recovery drills, validate RTO/RPO against SLA targets, and produce post-mortem
- runbooks. Impact: Guarantees service availability and protects against
- catastrophic loss. Security & Compliance Orchestration Integrate vulnerability
- scanners (Nessus, Qualys), threat-intel feeds, and policy-as-code into CI/CD
- pipelines. Automate remediation playbooks and generate compliance dashboards for
- SOC/DevSecOps. Impact: Maintains HP’s high-security standards across all
- infrastructure layers. Network Configuration & Lifecycle Management Operate
- configuration managers to centralize topology, inventory, and device state.
- Enforce change-control gates, audit drift, and maintain traceability from design
- to production. Impact: Provides a single source of truth and ensures
- configuration integrity. Cross-Functional Architecture Governance Collaborate
- with platform, edge, security, and product teams to embed network security into
- CI/CD and DevOps pipelines. Present architecture reviews and maintain
- traceability matrices. Impact: Aligns infrastructure decisions with business
- strategy and compliance requirements. Capacity & Performance Modeling Model
- traffic and compute link utilization; forecast capacity needs using historical
- data and predictive analytics. Deliver capacity-planning reports to product,
- finance, and data-center stakeholders. Impact: Enables proactive scaling and
- prevents performance bottlenecks. Continuous Process & Tool Improvement Evaluate
- emerging trends (intent-based networking, programmable data planes, network
- observability). Propose tool/process changes to reduce manual effort and improve
- security posture. Impact: Keeps HP’s infrastructure world-class and
- future-proof. Prototyping & Customer Validation Rapidly spin up proof-of-concept
- environments to test complex customer requests. Translate business requirements
- into secure, performant, and automatable designs. Impact: Aligns customer
- expectations with technical feasibility and security constraints. Required
- Experience & Skills: Networking: 6+ years configuring firewalls, switches, VPNs,
- VLANs, and traffic load balancing. Deep knowledge of L2/L3 protocols (OSPF, BGP,
- MPLS, VXLAN). Systems & Infrastructure Engineering: Architecture governance
- (TOGAF/ArchiMate). Design documentation, lifecycle management, and change
- control. Infrastructure-as-Code expertise. Automation & DevOps: Proficiency in
- Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Jenkins/GitLab CI. Proven CI/CD for network
- assets, automated testing, and policy-as-code pipelines. Security & Compliance:
- Vulnerability management, policy-as-code, zero-trust design. Certifications such
- as CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent preferred. Tools & Platforms: VMware vSphere,
- Proxmox, Linux, Windows, F5, InfoBlox. Experience with cloud networking (AWS
- VPC, Azure VNets). Soft Skills: Strong attention to detail and documentation.
- Excellent stakeholder communication. Proactive, self-directed learning mindset.
- Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information
- Technology, or related discipline OR equivalent professional experience.
- Technical cybersecurity certification (SANS, ISACA, CompTIA, Cisco, etc.)
- preferred. Demonstrated hands-on experience with network automation, IaC, and
- infrastructure-as-code tools. Disclaimer: This job description outlines the
- general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to
- be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, or knowledge.
- Additional functions may be assigned as needed by management. Salary: The pay
- range for this role is $93,400 to $143,800 USD annually with additional
- opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United
- States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related
- knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits
HP offers a comprehensive benefits
package for this position, including: Health insurance Dental insurance Vision
insurance Long term/short term disability insurance Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account Life insurance Generous time off policies, including;
4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure 11 paid holidays Additional
flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview) The compensation
and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company
reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without
notice, subject to applicable law. Job Posting Expiration Date: 5/1/26 Job -
Data & Information Technology Schedule - Full time Shift - No shift premium
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